True Crime audiobooks

Murdered Innocents

By: Corey Mitchell

Narrated by: James Anderson Foster

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

On a December night in Austin, Texas, teenagers Jennifer Harbison and Eliza Thomas closed up the yogurt store where they worked. The girls were joined by Jennifer's younger sister, Sarah, and her friend Amy Ayers.



Less than an hour later, all four girls were dead—tragic victims of an apparent fire. Until it was discovered that the girls had been... Read more

The Murder on Yarmouth Sands

By: Edgar Wallace

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) was an English writer of 957 short stories and over 170 novels. He is widely recognized as one of the most prolific writers of his age.

'The Murder on Yarmouth Sands' is a true crime story. Towards the end of the Boer War, the body of a woman was discovered on Yarmouth Sands. She had been strangled by a... Read more

Letting Go

By: Alex Hanscombe

Narrated by: Alex Hanscombe

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Alex Hanscombe’s powerful, inspirational account as seen on This Morning, BBC Breakfast, Newsnight and in The Sunday Times, Mail on Sunday and The Sun. ‘I was the most famous child in the British Isles…’ The stunning and heartbreaking story of the young son of Rachel... Read more

Facing the Wind

By: Julie Salamon

Narrated by: Sandra Burr

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Bob Rowe and his wife Mary worked hard to build their American dream. A suburban home, barbecues in the summer, and a fast track corporate job made their life look ideal to outsiders. Yet they faced one of the most difficult challenges for a couple: their son Christopher was born severely handicapped and disabled. As a family, they managed to... Read more

The Court of Last Resort

By: Erle Stanley Gardner

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 12 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The creator of Perry Mason’s Edgar Award–winning account of miscarriages of justice, wrongful convictions, legal battles, and landmark reversals.In 1945, Erle Stanley Gardner, noted attorney and author of the popular Perry Mason mysteries, was contacted by an overwhelmed California public defender who believed his doomed client was innocent.... Read more

Spies in the Family

By: Eva Dillon

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting true-life thriller and revealing memoir from the daughter of an American intelligence officer—the astonishing true story of two spies and their families on opposite sides of the Cold War.In the summer of 1975, seventeen-year-old Eva Dillon's family was living in New Delhi when her father was exposed as a CIA spy. Eva had long believed... Read more

Agent M

By: Henry Hemming

Narrated by: Henry Hemming

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The fascinating, improbable true story of Maxwell Knight -- the great MI5 spymaster and inspiration for the James Bond character M.

Maxwell Knight was perhaps the greatest spymaster in history. He did more than anyone in his era to combat the rising threat of fascism in Britain during World War II, in spite of his own history inside this... Read more

American Kingpin

By: Nick Bilton

Narrated by: Will Damron

Length: 12 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. The unbelievable true story of the man who built a billion-dollar online drug empire from his bedroom—and almost got away with it
 
In 2011, a twenty-six-year-old libertarian programmer named Ross Ulbricht launched the ultimate free market: the Silk Road, a clandestine Web site hosted on the Dark Web where anyone... Read more

Pure Murder

By: Corey Mitchell

Narrated by: James Anderson Foster

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

"We gotta kill 'em. They know what we look like."



On a hot summer night in Houston, two teenage girls—bright, beautiful, success-bound friends—took a shortcut home from a friend's apartment to make their curfew. They never reached their homes. The next morning, the families of the two girls began a frantic search, organizing friends and... Read more

Incendiary

By: Michael Cannell

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Long before the specter of terrorism haunted the public imagination, a serial bomber stalked the streets of 1950s New York. The race to catch him would give birth to a new science called criminal profiling.

Grand Central, Penn Station, Radio City Music Hall—for almost two decades, no place was safe from the man who signed his anonymous letters... Read more

Three Minutes to Doomsday

By: Joe Navarro

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

An intense cat-and-mouse game played between two brilliant men in the last days of the Cold War, this shocking insider’s story shows how a massive giveaway of secret war plans and nuclear secrets threatened America with annihilation.

In 1988 Joe Navarro, one of the youngest agents ever hired by the FBI, was dividing his time between SWAT... Read more

The Road to Jonestown

By: Jeff Guinn

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 17 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

2018 Edgar Award Finalist—Best Fact Crime

“A thoroughly readable, thoroughly chilling account of a brilliant con man and his all-too vulnerable prey” (The Boston Globe)—the definitive story of preacher Jim Jones, who was responsible for the Jonestown Massacre, the largest murder-suicide in American history, by the New York Times bestselling... Read more

Darker than Night

By: Tom Henderson

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 11 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1985, two twenty-seven-year-old friends left their suburban Detroit homes for a hunting trip in rural Michigan. When they did not return, their families and police suspected foul play. For eighteen years, no one could prove a thing. Then, a relentless investigator got a witness to talk, and a horrifying story emerged.



In 2003, this bizarre... Read more

The Foundling

By: Paul Joseph Fronczak

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 11 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the inspiring and “page-turning” (Booklist) true story of a man who discovered that he had been kidnapped as a baby—and how his quest to find out who he really is upturned the genealogy industry, his own family, and set in motion the second longest cold case in US history.

In 1964, a woman pretending to be a nurse kidnapped an infant boy... Read more

H.H. Holmes

By: Adam Selzer

Narrated by: David Bendena

Length: 17 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the first truly comprehensive book examining the life and career of the murderer who has become one of America's great supervillains. It reveals not only the true story but how the legend evolved, taking advantage of hundreds of primary sources that have never been examined before, including legal documents, letters, articles, and... Read more

Svenska svindlare och fuskare

By: Fredrik Kullberg

Narrated by: Christoffer Rigeblad

Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Ta del av historierna och personerna bakom några av de största rubrikerna i media och skandalerna som orsakat dem. Här presenteras 87 fallstudier av svenska svindlare från 1600-talet och fram till idag, som till exempel den charmiga stjärnkirurgen på Karolinska Institutet, blodgruppsdieten eller myten om seriemördaren Thomas Quick."Otroligt... Read more

Killings

By: Calvin Trillin

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

True stories of sudden death in the classic collection by a master of American journalism

“Reporters love murders,” Calvin Trillin writes in the introduction to Killings. “In a pinch, what the lawyers call ‘wrongful death’ will do, particularly if it’s sudden.” Killings, first published in 1984 and expanded for this edition, shows Trillin to be... Read more

The Trials of Walter Ogrod

By: Thomas Lowenstein

Narrated by: Chris Andrew Ciulla

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The horrific 1988 murder of four-year-old Barbara Jean Horn shocked the citizens of Philadelphia. Plucked from her own front yard, Barbara Jean was found dead less than two and a half hours later in a cardboard TV box dragged to a nearby street curb. After months of investigation with no strong leads, the case went cold. Four years later it was... Read more

The Crime of the Century

By: Dennis L. Breo & William J. Martin

Narrated by: Christina Delaine

Length: 18 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

On July 14th, 1966, Richard Franklin Speck swept through a quiet Chicago townhouse like a summer tornado and stabbed, strangled, and killed eight young nurses in a violent sexual rampage. By morning, only one nurse, Corazon Amurao, had miraculously survived, and her scream of terror was heard around the world. As the eight bodies were carried... Read more

The Michigan Murders

By: Edward Keyes

Narrated by: Pete Cross

Length: 15 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1967, during the time of peace, free love, and hitchhiking, nineteen-year-old Mary Terese Fleszar was last seen walking home to her apartment in Ypsilanti, Michigan. One month later, her naked body stabbed over thirty times and missing both feet and a forearm was discovered on an abandoned farm. A year later, the body of twenty-year-old Joan... Read more

City of Light, City of Poison

By: Holly Tucker

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Appointed to conquer the “crime capital of the world,” the first police chief of Paris faces an epidemic of murder in the late 1600s. Assigned by Louis XIV, Nicolas de La Reynie begins by clearing the streets of filth and installing lanterns throughout Paris, turning it into the City of Light.The fearless La Reynie pursues criminals through the... Read more

Dr. Crippen, Lover and Poisoner

By: William le Queux

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

William Le Queux (1864 - 1927) was an Anglo-French journalist and writer, diplomat, traveller, flying buff and wireless pioneer who broadcast music from his own station long before radio was generally available.

He was phenomenally successful as a novelist and short story writer, and many of his tales are based on his own exploits, albeit vastly... Read more

The Secret of the Moat Farm

By: Edgar Wallace

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) was an English writer of 957 short stories and over 170 novels. He is widely recognized as one of the most prolific writers of his age.

"The Secret of the Moat Farm" is Wallace's account of a real life murder mystery which he had covered as a young journalist. Camille Holland, a spinster of 56, became... Read more

The Green Bicycle Mystery

By: Edgar Jepson

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Edgar Alfred Jepson (1863-1938) was an English author best known for his adventure and detective fiction. He also wrote supernatural and fantasy stories.

"The Green Bicycle Mystery" is Jepson's account of a true unsolved murder case. Bella Wright was found lying dead beside her bicycle on a lonely country lane in Leicestershire. She had been shot... Read more